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Why respell the words phonetically? Don't they have more personal meaning if you see them correctly? Also, wouldn't a phonetic spelling of "book" be " buk" not "bok"? I must say I was a bit disappointed the website didn't combine all the runes into one giant rune.

I can't remember the name of it, but there is a giant Elder Futhark bind rune out there. One form of the Odin legend has it that when he hung himself, thereby receiving knowledge of the runes, that seven sticks fell to the floor and in the pattern can be found all 24 runes. I am too lazy to search up the image online but if you look for it hard enough you'll find it.

I like how the all rune looks like a three dimensional cube, is this of significance?

I may look into this it seems interesting but I thought you may already know the answer.

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Look at a rune alphabet and you'll know why everything is spelled phonetically.

Other language systems are commonly different from English, which will have different methods of communicating what they mean in said language. Like for example with Spanish where the adjective goes after the noun (Ex: Casablanca = White House) which is opposite to English.

But every language has a system, to properly communicate what you have to say, you have to learn and use that system or else it's lost.

The runes are demonstrably derived from the Latin alphabet and modified to be easily chiseled, since Norsemen tended to do a lot of their writing on stone.

However, a quick survey shows that quite a few Elder Futhark letters don't fit into the hexagon, and the Younger Futhark (aka Scandinavian Futhark, a simplified dirivative of Elder Futhark) actually uses curved lines, which definitely do not (amusing side note, I've always thought some of the Younger Futhark strongly resembles Hebrew letters).

I'm not sure what you mean by Germanic vs Nordic runes. I suppose you could mean Elder vs Younger Futhark, but the majority of "Germanic" Elder Futhark inscriptions are found in Scandinavia (in fact only about 100 inscriptions of any kind are found in continental Europe, vs nearly 6,000 in Scandinavia), and the historical range of Germanic tribes is in Scandinavia - and worse, the Younger Futhark fits the hexagonal model much less closely than the Elder, which is at least composed of straight lines, most of them around a few common axes - but still, a good handful of letters don't conform at all.

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